Year 5D medicine

Year 5D placements

Year 5D transitions students into the medical workplace as trainee interns. It is structured as a series of six six-week clinical rotations in aged care, emergency medicine, medicine, surgery, a specialty, and an elective rotation.

Any one or more of these can be undertaken in rural locations in either the north-west or south-east regions. This gives students an opportunity to experience rural practice in their final year. All students must complete at least four weeks in a rural location during their five-year course. A final year rotation allows all students to meet this requirement.

Accommodation is provided close to the hospitals at a subsidised rental.

Rural placements are open to all Monash medical students as well as final year students from other universities in Australia and overseas.

North-west rural placements

Rotations in the north-west are open to all Monash medical students, as well as students from other Australian and overseas universities.

Extended Rural Cohort students who have been based in the north-west for their first two clinical years, spend two rotations in the north-west. Another two clinical rotations are undertaken at large tertiary metropolitan hospitals. The remaining rotations can be undertaken in Melbourne or any other location in Australia. Students are able to undertake a final year clinical rotation at Monash University, Malaysia or at another overseas institution which meets the University’s requirements.